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[Waldo Bastian]

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On Fri June 4 2004 20:46, Nathan Toone wrote:
> Can you use variables within KDE Config files (~/.kde/share/config)?
>
> For example, I have 10 users, each of their usernames mirrors their jabber
> ID. I want to include something like this in the kopeterc file:
> AccountId=$USER at domain.com
>
> and use the same file as a template for each user (without having to
> configure it for each one...)
>
> Is this possible?

Yes, but you must explicitly indicate that such expansion should take place by 
adding [$e] to the key:

AccountId[$e]=${USER}@domain.com

See also http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/config_file.php#shell_expansion

Cheers,
Waldo
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